What can we learn from history?

[zestydomains*com]

Hello All,

I was just doing a little research through some old Namepros posts and found these neat threads that about sent my head spinning. They are all from about 12-15 months ago and are all for the sales of 3-letter domains. Look at the prices they sold for then and compare to the value those names might have in today's wholesale marketplace...

http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=7059&highlight=letter
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=4101&highlight=letter
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=5916&highlight=letter
http://www.namepros.com/showthread.php?t=5906&highlight=letter

In light of this little history lesson, isn't it impressive what a year or so can do to the valuation of domains! I now often wonder if the 3-letter .info, .biz and .us names of today are not maybe going to be in this same boat, and a year from now we may all be scratching our heads wondering why we didn't invest in them more now.

Your thoughts and comments appreciated.

Man this is fun stuff!
Andrew

 

[Grrilla]

Cool stuff Andrew. Will check out all the links later- TX for doing the research. The NP archives are a great resource for checking out this kind of info.
I saw a batch of 3LL .us names going cheap the other day and passed because they looked tough to do anything w/ because of letters. Z, X Q- letters that are not popular for abbrevs/ in the US mkt, and no apparent acronym value but still...
I hope your prognostication is right! Would give alot of us cause for extra celebration during the 2005 holidays if this prooves to be the case.